Ferretti to get Hollywood Prod. Designer Award

MUMBAI: Academy Award-winning production designer Dante Ferretti will receive the Hollywood Film Festival’s Hollywood Production Designer of the Year Award at the Festival’s 22 October awards ceremony. His selection was determined for his “distinguished body of work” by a recommendation of the Council of the Art Directors Guild (ADG).

Ferretti received his Oscar for the production design on The Aviator in 2005. Ferretti received another seven Academy Award nominations for his work on The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Hamlet (1990), The Age of Innocence (1993), Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Gangs of New York (2002), and Kundun (1997) for which he received two nominations: Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.

The award will be presented to Ferretti during the Festival’s black-tie awards ceremony banquet before a gathering of 1,200 industry and guild executives, stars, celebrities, filmmakers and media. Previous recipients of the Festival’s Production Designer honors are Stuart Craig, William Creber, Robert Boyle, Henry Bumstead, Grant Major, Harold Michelson and John Myhre.

Ferretti recently served as Production Designer on DreamWorks’ upcoming Sweeney Todd. He has won three British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) for The Aviator, Interview with the Vampire, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. He has been nominated for three Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Awards for his work on The Aviator, Gangs of New York, and Titus (1999). Ferretti’s additional credits for production design include: The Black Dahlia (2006), Cold Mountain (2003), Meet Joe Black (1998), and Casino (1995).